Nearly 75% of Appalachian Ohio doesn’t have access to minimum internet speeds
About a third of households in Ohio’s 32 Appalachian counties don’t have access to the Federal Communications Commission’s bare minimum internet speed.
“A lot of our areas have no broadband and homes have no cellular service,” said Tom Reid, President of Reid Consulting Group who works with Connecting Appalachia.
“You’re talking about taking an area basically back to the 1930s”